Six additional films have been announced for this year’s SXSW Festival as well as additional speaking engagements from director Marc Webb, Jason Bateman, Mike Myers, Ralph Steadman, Robert Duvall and Tilda Swinton.
The festival will run in Austin from March 7 -16,
The first teaser trailer for The Purge: Anarchy has been released, and although I found the first film to be rather mediocre despite the interesting premise, it looks like director James DeMonaco might have made the film I wanted from the
Relativity released the first trailer and poster for the upcoming parkour action flick, Brick Mansions, which will be one of Paul Walker‘s last roles. The film also stars David Belle and RZA, and is written by Luc Besson, with Camille Delamarre (Transporter
StudioCanal released a new trailer for the upcoming release of Under the Skin, which stars Scarlett Johansson as a beautiful but deadly alien luring men to their demise. The film is directed by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) and is set for a
Empire debuted the new trailer for the upcoming thriller The Two Faces of January, which stars Viggo Mortensen and Kirsten Dunst as two con artists hiding out in Greece who develop a friendship with another American, played by Oscar Issac.
Today, Drafthouse Films announced their acquisition of Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard‘s 20,000 Days on Earth, which spends a fictitious day in the life of musician Nick Cave as he celebrates his 20,000th day on Earth. Although I missed this one at Sundance,
This week’s pre-theatrical and day and date VOD releases include two comedies, Date and Switch and Down and Dangerous, the action thriller Down and Dangerous, and the horror film The Returned.
For more information about each film, hit the break for the
A new red band trailer for the Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring action flick Sabotage has been released today. The film, directed by David Ayer, revolves around an elite DEA squad coming under attack after a big cartel bust. Sabotage also stars Olivia Williams, Mireille Enos,
The found footage horror train keeps on chugging, this time with the webcam thriller The Den, directed by Zachary Donohue. The film revolves around a girl looking for friends on a Chat Roulette type webcam site called The Den, only to witness
Months ago, it was reported that The Weinstein Company planned on trimming 20 minutes from Bong Joon-ho‘s upcoming comic book adaptation Snowpiercer from the U.S. release. Now, according to Deadline, an agreement has been met to screen
Yahoo! revealed the design for Mondo’s upcoming The Lego Movie poster. Tom Whalen designed the print, which will go on sale at a random time tomorrow in celebration of the release of the film in theaters.
The all female version of The Expendables has had some developments with Robert Luketic being announced as the film’s director. Luketic most recently directed the Harrison Ford thriller Paranoia, which doesn’t exactly bode well for The Expendabelles. He also directed Legally Blonde,
The full lineup for the 2014 True/False Film Festival has been announced with a number of great docs including Sundance hits Happy Valley, Rich Hill, Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart, Concerning Violence, as well as festival favorites The Unknown Known and
A new trailer for the documentary Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton has been released ahead of its premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival. This film takes a look at the prolifically awesome Stones Throw Records and its impact on the history of
SXSW announced the full lineup for their Midnighters and Shorts programs today. The Midnighters program, which celebrates the best in genre cinema, will contain 10 features, and the shorts program will contain 113 short films.
Some notable entries from this lineup include
A new trailer for Carter‘s Maladies starring James Franco has been released, along with a release date of March 21 in select theaters and March 25 on VOD. In the film, Franco plays a former soap opera actor named James (hmm) who
